Volunteer with the Salvadori Center
There are dozens of ways to volunteer and get involved at Salvadori,for as little as an afternoon or as long as the entire school year. Here are 7 ways you can get involved:
- Facilitate a field trip
- Hold a Q & A session
- Answer questions as part of our “Ask a Professional” feature
- Buddy with one of our architect-educators
- Be a mentor at our annual Charrette
- Join our community at our annual benefit
- Provide much-needed supplies or equipment
| 1. Facilitate a field trip | |
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 Above: Students from Erasmus High School get a behind-the-scenes look at the mechanical room of the Chrysler Building. |
On your own, or under the auspices of your firm, facilitate a field trip for a class to tour a building, bridge, park or other built space. “Behind-the-scenes” views of familiar and unfamiliar environments help students make connections with projects they do at school. Salvadori classes have visited the mechanical room of the Chrysler Building, the top floor of the Woolworth Building and an office with a view of the World Trade Center Site. This year, our students are interested in exploring historical sites, public monuments, interior design projects, professional offices and play spaces. Read feature stories about field trips to The Chrysler Building and Ground Zero. |
| 2. Hold a Q & A session |
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| Work-related experiences are also eye-opening for the students in our programs. Even a brief “Q and A” session with a visiting professional can be motivating as well as informative. Give a demonstration in your area of expertise or engage students in a hands-on activity. Great topics include simple machines, transportation systems, urban planning, real estate and building construction. We look forward to your suggestions. |
| 3. Answer questions as part of our “Ask a Professional” feature |
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| Our new web-based “Ask a Professional” feature provides a virtual link between professionals and students and teachers. Be one of our featured experts! Create a thumbnail profile of yourself explaining what you do in student-friendly terms. Include a little personal information and a photo. Answer email queries from Salvadori students. Schedule a weekly or bi-weekly “office hour” to respond to students’ queries in real time. Then, schedule a visit to “your” students’ classroom and meet them face-to-face. For an example of how this works, click here. To volunteer to do this, send us an email. |
| 4. Buddy with one of our architect-educators | |
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“All of the above” option. “Buddy” with one of our architect-educators and become involved on a year- or semester-long basis. Become the resident expert for one of our SMSP classrooms. Make an occasional visit to answer questions in person as well as on-line. Keep up-to-date on the projects students are working on. Offer advice when you think you can help. Right: board member Nat Oppenheimer |
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| 5. Be a mentor at our annual Charrette | |
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Be a mentor at Charrette. Every spring, 100 of our students gather to beat the deadline during a day-long design challenge created by our staff. We’re on the lookout for twenty professional (or student) architects and engineers to lead groups of ten in the conceptualization, design and building of models that meet the guidelines of our Design Challenge. Left, Jeremey Linzee of Kohn Petersen Fox Associates |
| 6. Join our community at our annual benefit | |
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Join us for cocktails and music at our industry-supported annual benefit. Support our programs and mingle with the people who keep the Center running. Firms “adopt” a project, class, school or community based on their level of giving. This relationship creates a special bond between firms and schools leading to students’ success. View a list of donors. |
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| 7. Provide much-needed supplies or equipment |
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| Contribute consumables for use in classrooms. Too often, our schools run short of materials. All of the following are useful: pencils, paper, tape, glue, string, foam core board, tracing paper, architecture or engineering scales, T-squares, electrical/electronic components, old laptops, instrumentation and lab equipment, reference books. |
Contact Us to find out more about how you can help us reach as many kids as possible! If you have a great idea about how you can help, please let us know.
